DESCRIPTION

The
ne_ssl_clicert_read
function reads a
client certificate
from a PKCS#12-formatted file, and returns an
ne_ssl_client_cert
object. If the client certificate is encrypted, it must be decrypted before it is used. An
ne_ssl_client_cert
object holds a client certificate and the associated private key, not just a certificate; the term "client certificate" will used to refer to this pair.

A client certificate can be in one of two states:
encrypted
or
decrypted. The
ne_ssl_clicert_encrypted
function will return non-zero if the client certificate is in the
encrypted
state. A client certificate object returned by
ne_ssl_clicert_read
may be initially in either state, depending on whether the file was encrypted or not.

ne_ssl_clicert_decrypt
can be used to decrypt a client certificate using the appropriate password. This function must only be called if the object is in the
encrypted
state; if decryption fails, the certificate state does not change, so decryption can be attempted more than once using different passwords.

A client certificate can be given a "friendly name" when it is created;
ne_ssl_clicert_name
will return this name (or
NULL
if no friendly name was specified).
ne_ssl_clicert_name
can be used when the client certificate is in either the encrypted or decrypted state, and will return the same string for the lifetime of the object.

The function
ne_ssl_clicert_owner
returns the certificate part of the client certificate; it must only be called if the client certificate is in the
decrypted
state.

When the client certificate is no longer needed, the
ne_ssl_clicert_free
function should be used to destroy the object.

RETURN VALUE

ne_ssl_clicert_read
returns a client certificate object, or
NULL
if the file could not be read.
ne_ssl_clicert_encrypted
returns zero if the object is in the decrypted state, or non-zero if it is in the encrypted state.
ne_ssl_clicert_name
returns a
NUL-terminated friendly name string, or
NULL.
ne_ssl_clicert_owner
returns a certificate object.

EXAMPLES

The following code reads a client certificate and decrypts it if necessary, then loads it into an HTTP session.